Read the new Breaking Ground: Celebrating Writers of Colour booklet

SPEAKING VOLUMES has begun the next chapter of the Breaking Ground project with the launch of a new booklet celebrating writers of colour. We hope that the booklet will be a valuable resource both at home and overseas, demonstrating the wide and varied literature of the UK whilst raising the profile and giving a platform to 200 contemporary British BAME authors.

Black football players have constantly graced the football stadia in Britain since 1881, when Andrew Watson captained a Scottish team against England. Check outTHEBLACKPIONEERSOFBRITISHFOOTBALL who paved the way for today’s modern black football players; here…

AlexandreDumaswas one of the most famous French writers of the 19th century. He is best known for his historical adventure novels likeThe ThreeMusketeers, The CountofMonteCristoandTheManin the IronMask. Dumas’ grandfather was a French nobleman who had settled in Santo Domingo, now part of Haiti. His paternal grandmother, Marie Louise Cessette Dumas was African/Caribbean, who had been a slave in the French colony. Read more about our S/HEROEShere…